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From the University Photographs Collection. A photograph of Byron Green, Forrest County Board of Supervisors President, for whom Lake Byron is named, as well as a veterinarian. Assisted USM's Class of 1934 in the construction of the lake named in...

Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of Byron de la Beckwith taken in July 1963. Beckwith was convicted in 1994 for the 1963 murder of NAACP field secretary and civil rights activist Medgar Evers.

A collection of eight interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...

Oral history.; Interview conducted in November, 1994, with Clearese Cook. Ms. Cook grew up in the Irene Chapel Community of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She attended De Priest Consolidated School in the Palmers Crossing Community of Hattiesburg and...

Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 17, 1977 with Mrs. Betty Carter at her home in Greenville, Mississippi. Carter was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She attended Newcomb College where she met her husband, Hodding Carter. Together they...

Oral history.; Interview conducted George Lewis French was born in June 1919 to Edgar Franklin French and Lila Mae Schull French in Maryville, LA. French was one of five children. French’s family moved to Mississippi when he was twelve years old....

Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 26, 1977 with William Joel Blass (born 1917). As a lawyer in 1952, he successfully prosecuted the Boyce Holleman case by proving that voter fraud had kept Holleman from winning. Beginning in 1953, he...

Photograph of Dr. Horace Fleming. Caption: "Dr. Fleming pauses for a moment to admire the beauty of the Hattiesburg campus from the bridge across Lake Byron, a favorite site of students seeking a bit of solitude among the throng of students." This...

Mississippi Southern College commemorative Wedgwood plate. The Administration Building in the center is bordered by a repeated image of Lake Byron and the bridge, pinecones, camellias, azaleas and magnolias.